With the beginning of autumn, the days are noticeably shorter. It begins the period in which the children in the morning go in the dark to school. Wear them while still dark clothes, they are seen by other road users worse. One child in dark clothing, for example, only seen from 25 meters – with a luminous reflective vest, it is at dusk since up to 140 meters for motorists visible. That’s a huge difference, as security expert’s stress.
Therefore, “Gelber Engel” the ADAC Foundation distributed this year again bright yellow safety vests to first graders, so this thanks to the attached reflective material are better seen when they wear these to school. The sooner the child is seen on the road, the more time the driver of a brake and / or evasive maneuvers. It is precisely children are the most vulnerable participants in road traffic. Still crashing many of them on the road, because they are not or too late to be seen. They are not adults and take their environment differently. In addition, they do not have the necessary overview due to their height and are also often not the road hazards aware.
But alone with the wearing of safety vests with reflective material is not enough, the correct behavior on the road has to be trained. “The schedule of the new first year is almost six weeks of enrollment not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but in the context of tangible lessons they learn, among other things, how to behave as pedestrians at traffic lights. These we have also virtually at a traffic lights rehearsed near the school, “said teacher road safety education in the Heinrich Schmitz-primary school. Then they joined forces to develop theoretically how a road safely crossed without traffic lights and on what you doing all must respect. In the week before the autumn holidays, the first graders sat around this part of the practice, while the new safety vests were equally used.
But before Grothe went on the road with the 26 students, she showed them still on the playground how such a high visibility vest works by them with a flashlight. “I know that the West already out of kindergarten. The strips glow in the dark when there light” of Jan Six years knows Together with his classmates he should then cross the first street in front of the primary school. “Left-right, left … nothing to see here, I can go,” said the two studied the rule and looked it in the appropriate directions. It was not a car or bicycle, and so Jan could safely cross the street.
In addition to the West the school received yet sufficient information for teaching, and for the parents there are useful tips for safe school.
Because all should know that in addition to the proper behavior on the road and the regular wearing of safety vests is important. Only then will the visually protective companion can have full effect, not only on the daily commute to school.